>>18059011People need to understand there are two factors that contributed to this that had nothing to do with Disco being popular.
1. A lot more people thought it was real.
2. Homophobia was incredibly popular
So when you saw this faggot on TV you thought you were going to witness a real life gay bashing. For the younger posters here, a gay bashing was when you would drive around town and find a gay person and beat them up.